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Caltech

/ ˈkælˌtɛk /

noun

  1. the California Institute of Technology

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Chris and Jasmine Bryant — he a software engineer, she the director of Caltech’s Center for Teaching, Learning, & Outreach — were cheerfully mum about what their Halloween extravaganza cost.

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JPL seriously considered returning to its origins by pivoting to Department of Defense work, but politically connected Caltech leaders managed to convince Congress and the White House to keep funding Galileo, JPL’s flagship mission at the time to explore Jupiter’s atmosphere.

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These shock waves — created during “supershear” earthquakes — can worsen how bad the ground shakes both side to side and up and down along an affected fault area, scientists at USC, Caltech and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign wrote in a recent opinion article for the journal Seismological Research Letters.

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“We’re getting better data, and so now we see this,” said seismologist Lucy Jones, a Caltech research associate.

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Lab experiments at Caltech showed they were physically possible.

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